Mule 3 GA is getting closer with each day, and brings numerous updates with it. Welcome a new member of the Mule family – a “Mule Application”!

What’s in the name? Some of you may have met this baby in its infancy before, or maybe were around to see it make first steps. Those would be even more pleased to see it running around today and welcoming you to play with it What did the baby learn in the meantime?:

• We can now name all our body parts (structure defined, app descriptor introduced, registry custom properties file added)
• We can stand the cold, all packed up (zipped application archive) or run in our summer shorts (exploded app archive support)
• We can ride our bike (on-the-fly app deployment), know how to get off it (undeploy at runtime), or even fix it on the go! (runtime app updates)

Pretty exciting stuff, I must say Meet the baby in the next public release, and enjoy some docs for now (free Mule account required). Follow the suggested links if things get moved around in the meanwhile:

• Application Layout and Deployment
• Application Deployment Descriptor

Mule Data Integrator provides an easy to use graphical environment to create and test you maps for doing data transformation in Mule. Once you have your map created and are generating the expected output, you will want to test it from within Mule. Since both MDI and Mule IDE are Eclipse-based tools you would think you could do this without leaving Eclipse. Guess what? You are right.
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What is BPM and why would you use it with Mule?
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I’m pleased to announce that Mule team has just released 3.0 Milestone 2. Before we get into the features coming in Mule 3.0, I’d like to talk about the theme for this release.
The overall theme for Mule 3.0 is simplicity. We are looking at every part of Mule to see what we can do to make things even easier. Mule is a powerful platform, but we realise not everyone wants or needs all that power. The feedback from our users and customer is that they would like other ways of configuring Mule to make it easier for their new developers to get going quickly.
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At TSSJS last week I had a conversation with a Mule user that was having a problem invoking more than one method on a service component (just a POJO object). His scenario was that he had a service with multiple inbound endpoints and a service component with multiple methods, some with matching parameter types. Existing Mule users will be aware that Mule will match methods against the parameters received in the current message. Thus is two methods have the same parameters Mule cannot match the method to invoke.
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Scheduling is great, it really is. It’s also very useful for application integration since we often have to repeat tasks of over time interval or schedule tasks for a date in the future. Mule has had scheduling support since version 1.1 with the Quartz connector, now with iBeans scheduling just got easier. iBeans offers a annotations-based API for performing common integration tasks such as sending email, subscribing to a JMS queue or polling an ATOM feed.
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MuleSoft is proud to announce that Mule IDE 2.0 has been released.

Mule IDE 2.0 is a development and testing environment based on Eclipse. It supports the following features: (more…)